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BlogCFC 5.9.6.005

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:28:00 -0400

I released a very minor update today. 5.9.6.005 adds text to the pod manager to make it more clear how it works. Also - if you clear your selections it saves that change. Enjoy. Today's release brought to you by Freeland, "Wish I Was Here":

BlogCFC 5.9.6.004 Released

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:24:00 -0400

I just released a minor update to BlogCFC. It contains two small bug fixes and a feature suggested by Ryan V. If you are logged in as an admin, you will no longer need to enter CAPTCHA for comments. If you use comment moderation, your comments will automatically be approved. Today's build brought to you by "Perpetual" by VNV Nation.

BlogCFC Update

Wed, 19 May 2010 07:11:00 -0400

I blogged about this on my main blog (see here), but I wanted to make sure folks new to update to the latest BlogCFC as soon as possible. Security firm ProCheckup found some XSS issues and I've corrected them.

BlogCFC Google Groups

Mon, 03 May 2010 08:18:00 -0400

Just a quickie - I've created the Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/blogcfc. I've turned on moderation for new members. p.s. I "discovered" custom fields in WordPress last week. I'm sooooo adding that to BlogCFC.

BlogCFC 5.9.6

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:25:00 -0400

BlogCFC 5.9.6 was just released to RIAForge. This is a pretty important update. I encourage everyone to upgrade. Changes include:

Jeff Braunstein added a 'view by author' feature. For blogs with multiple authors, you can now support a view of just one author's entries.
Jeff Braunstein also changed the 'crud' at the bottom (send to Digg, etc). He changed it to AddThis, which I think is a much more elegant.
Ok, so both of the previous items may not interest you. However, while I was doing some debugging I was surprised to see how many queries were being run on every request. I did a lot of digging and found numerous queries I could cache. In fact, the blog entry page went from something like 27 or so queries per view to 6. While none of these queries were slow, they added up. According to ColdFire, te total time spent on DB work went from something like 65% to 15%. All in all, things should run faster.

Google Group versus Forums

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:26:00 -0400

I don't get quite a lot of support requests for BlogCFC (everyone is leaving for Mango ;) but I was thinking it may make sense to shut down the old forums and switch to Google Groups. That's something that I think could be easier for folks to use. Thoughts? Would anyone actually join up even if just to help others? Would it help foster discussion on updates, changes?

BlogCFC 5.9.5.007

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:04:00 -0400

Just released a very small update that corrects some installer issues. Thanks go to Ken Gladden for the find. Current users can probably just ignore this update.

BlogCFC Update

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:23:00 -0400

Today's update contains two small changes. First, I removed the need to actually type anything in the search box. A user was trying to use the search page to browse categories and kept getting bounced to the home page when he didn't enter anything. It seemed like a fair change to make, so that's done. Second, a fix to tweetbacks was put it. Thanks to Shaun for the fix.

BlogCFC 5.9.5.005

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:06:00 -0400

The latest version of BlogCFC has been released. This includes a few small fixes here and there, including an important ScopeCache one by Brian Kotek, and the shiny new installer. Download and test please! (FYI, I forgot to update the notification service. Going to do so right now.)

BlogCFC will never have an installer. Ever. Until today...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:01:00 -0400

Ok, so the title is a bit misleading. I'm not releasing an installer today in any formal sense, but I do have the bits ready for testing. The installer handles prompting for a DSN, running import scripts (MySQL and SQL Server only, and be warned - this drops tables), and asking for basic settings to help get you started. It also auto-kills itself so it can't be run again. Some screen shots (sorry for how small they are): Before testing, add the following line (to a virgin BlogCFC install) to your blog.ini.cfm file: installed=no Enjoy!

BlogCFC 5.9.5.004

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:57:00 -0400

I just released a minor update to BlogCFC. This includes fixes by Gary Funk, minor tweaks here and there, and an updated SweetTweets/ColdFish plugin.

Question for folks concerning RTEs

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:49:00 -0400

I've decided to stop griping and finally add a rich text editor to BlogCFC (as an option of course). I'm looking into TinyMCE first with possible support for CKEditor as well. Some things have cropped up though that worry me. First off - it is a bit difficult to get tinymce to ignore certain elements, like the more tag. I could simply add a new form field to the editor that would be used for all the text you would normally place before the more - I could name this the excerpt which is really what it is. Code blocks are more worrisome though. I've looked at a Mango plugin for it, and while it isn't quite working for me, I assume I'll get it there eventually, but it begs the question: If code blocks just don't work well in tinyMCE, would folks be ok with not being able to use tinyMCE? I figure it would still be a useful feature for BlogCFC users of a non-technical nature. They can use all the pretty buttons, make nice blog entries, etc. Those of us who normally need code blocks can handle HTML ourselves typically. Thoughts?

SweetTweets Update

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:19:00 -0400

Folks, please read, and comment, on this entry from Adam: Are TweetBacks Dead? I'm very interested in what people think. I'm a huge fan of the concept, but, if they are dead, then I'll remove it from the product. Please post your comments on his blog, not here.

BlogCFC Update - First in 2010

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:59:00 -0400

Welcome to the first update to BlogCFC in 2010. Version 5.9.5.003 (available here) includes some important updates:

Andreas Schuldhaus provided XHTML fixes for the front end. Now folks know that I'm not a huge fan of XHTML. I mean I'm not against it of course, I just don't see the big deal. However, I do know it is important to some folks, and Andreas did all the work for me, so I couldn't say no! I'll try my best to ensure future client updates don't break this.
The next change is a minor one, but I think it is important. As you know, BlogCFC has long supported Pages. These are simple free form things. You can use them for whatever. An "About Me" page for example. I made a slight change to the database (see the readme) to support pages with no layout. This means you can create a page and set it to not use the blog's main layout. You can then put in any HTML you want. You could also use a META tag to link to a binary file. You get the idea. While I don't pretend BlogCFC is a CMS, I do think this will help folks who want to work with content that isn't in blog entries.
There were some critical performance fixes. First, Gary Funk updated the MySQL and SQL Server install scripts. This came about from issues I discovered in getting data for recent comments. It only seemed to impact databases with large numbers of entries. (By the way, the recent comments pod is now cached.) Gary did a butt load of updates here and it should help for those of us with larger databases. Secondly - I found a pretty dumb error in the code that handles mailing subscribers. I plan on blogging it today (back on my blog).
Lastly, I've updated ColdFish to the latest version. It now supports switching back and forth to a plain text version.

Enjoy, and I hope 2010 brings many new improvements and features to BlogCFC!

Recent Editor Changes

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:21:00 -0400

Recently I made quite a few changes to the "Blog Entry" editor screen. I think I went a bit too far. I lost the Upload/Insert image functionality and I've got a bug report on IE. Also, for large entries, the text box tends to grow way too big. So - folks - those of you running the very latest - can you give me some feedback? Do you agree? I think I may just remove the auto-grow textbox, restore the links, and see how that rolls.